Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry

We examine how external factors like pollutants, climate change and land management affect the functions and biogeochemical cycles in the soils of near-natural ecosystems.

Projects

Publications

Research Groups and Staff

Forest Soils and Biogeochemistry

Jörg Luster

interim Head of Research Unit

Rhizosphere Processes

Beat Frey

Groupleader

Julia Bilat

Visiting scientist

Ivano Brunner

Visiting scientist

Jeremy Cook

Master student

Sevil Cosgun

PhD student guest

Jessica Cuartero Monino

Postdoc

Laura Odette Agnès Dziomber

PhD student guest

Maomao Feng

PhD student guest

Aline Frossard

Scientific staff member

Benedikt Gruntz

Scientific assistant

Samuel Gunz

Visiting scientist

Xingguo Han

Postdoc

Verena Koppe

Trainee

Maria Leunda

Visiting scientist

Joel Rüthi

Visiting scientist

Christoph Schwörer

Visiting scientist

Christoph Sperisen

Scientific staff member

Beat Stierli

Technical staff member

Enrico van der Loo

Civil service employee

Gilda Varliero

Postdoc

Anja Werz

Assistant scientifique

Biogeochemistry

Frank Hagedorn

Groupleader

Arun Bose

Scientific staff member

Cédric Bührer

Master student

Philipp de Jong

PhD student

Katrin Di Bella Meusburger

Scientific staff member

Ika Djukic

Visiting scientist

Jasmin Fetzer

Visiting scientist

Michael Leonardo Galli

Temporary employee

Konstantin Gavazov

Visiting scientist

Clara Juliette Gund

Trainee

Noureddine Hajjar

Technical staff member

Tatiana Hirsiger

Technical staff member

Marco Lehmann

Scientific staff member

Kyra Amanda Sophie Marty

Master student

Mathias Mayer

Visiting scientist

Luisa Isabell Minich

PhD student

Margaux Moreno Duborgel

PhD student

Anita Nussbaumer

Technical staff member

Patrizia Palermo

Technical staff member

Mark Steve Riedi

Temporary employee

Patrick Schleppi

Scientific staff member

Maria Schmitt Oehler

Scientific staff member

Rienk Smittenberg

Scientific staff member

Tanja Stutz

Technical staff member

Anne Thimonier Rickenmann

Scientific staff member

Stefan Tobler

Master student

Annegret Udke

PhD student

Maurus Nathanael Villiger

Visiting scientist

Peter Waldner

Scientific staff member

Maja Wüthrich

Temporary employee

Wenjun Xiong

PhD student guest

Juejie Yang

Visiting scientist

Joachim Zhu

Technical specialist

Jan Ziegler

Temporary employee

Alois Zürcher

Technical staff member

Soil Functions and Soil Protection

Daniel Christen

Technical staff member

Roger Köchli

Technical staff member

Peter Lüscher

Visiting scientist

Sonia Meller

Guest

Iza Murzynowska

Technical staff member

Behzad Rahimi

Technical specialist

Marco Walser

Technical staff member

Lorenz Walthert

Scientific staff member

Nicolas Wirz

Civil service employee

Stephan Zimmermann

Scientific staff member

LWF II

Jürg Schmid

Temporary employee

Simone Schmid

Temporary employee